spec

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishspecspec /spek/ noun informal1[countable usually plural] a detailedinstruction about how a building, car, piece of equipment etc should be made syn specificationthe specs for the company’s new video games console2 →on spec3 →specs

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spec• I am restoring it and consideringupgrading it to 110 spec.• Pre-final specT9000-based versions will ship in June/July followed by finalspec versions in the fourthquarter.• And here's where the question of speclistsraises its head.• They are coming here, essentially, on spec.• You simply landed here on spec?• But Mark McGwire is also working on spec.• Our CD-ROM drive is three timesfaster than the softwarespecsrequire.From Longman Business Dictionaryspecspec /spek/ noun [countable] informal1MANUFACTURINGdetailed instructions about how something should be designed or made SYN specificationWe have made a few alterations to the design spec.2MARKETINGthe spec of a machine, computer etc is the combination of all its special features SYN specificationThe two cars share very similar specs.3on spec if you do something on spec, you do it without being sure that you will get what you are hoping forI sent in an application on spec, but I still haven’t heard from them about any jobs.